| Nov ’09 |
| 19 |
| 7:00 pm |
Tim Wolcott, renowned landscape photographer, to present at DigitalFusion — Come join the former head consultant for The Smithsonian & the Library of Congress as he shares his continuing journey of photographing the American Landscape.
Tim will discuss how Phase One has allowed him to realize his creative vision. He will also talk about his equipment, shot preparation, lens selection & Capture One processing. Tim has been showing his work for over 22 years both nationally & internationally.
Thursday, November 19th, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
DigitalFusion, 3542 Hayden Avenue, Culver City, CA 90232
Winning Image for the Highly Honored Photographer in the
2009 Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards.
The program will be of interest to fine art landscape photographers and those interested in fine art landscape photography. If Your Passion is B & W Landscape Photography, DigitalFusion will also be demonstrating the new P45+ Achromatic+ Back.
Tim Wolcott – “Mediocrity is not a Standard”
Tim Wolcott says that photography must run through his veins because the Wolcotts have been in photography longer than any other family in the world. Alexander Wolcott received the first patent for a camera and had the first exhibition of photography in 1840 as well as the first studio. Tim got his start when he won a blue ribbon and a Gold Key Award in a high school competition sponsored by Eastman Kodak. 
He later apprenticed with George Phillips, a friend of Ansel Adams and the Westons. “I guess you could say I’m an apprentice to every piece of art I have ever seen.” Tim is a perfectionist, with an extremely high work ethic, creating images exactly as the master photographers taught him. His interest in fine art landscape photography began many years ago when he and his grandfather would walk through the woods.
Tim began making his photographs using 8×10 and 4×5 cameras. Today he chooses to use only the Phase One P45+ medium format camera system (a 39.4 mega pixel capture), with Mamiya lenses and Capture One Pro software and uses only Apple computers.
Tim’s advice to aspiring nature photographers is “to be ready, nature’s most intimate moments are here for a fleeting moment.” He also recommends that they make a framing card, which will allow them to see the image in real light and find the exact composition (and then wait, wait and wait some more).
He further advises to know what lenses to choose for your subject; turn off auto everything – you should decide what you are doing, not the camera. Learn to push the lens to the limit; this will help an image become three dimensional. Pick the right depth of field to emphasize or de-emphasize your subject. Slow down. It is not about how many images you take, it is all about getting it right the first time; don’t rely on Photoshop because it doesn’t fix the main elements of a photograph.
DigitalFusion will be printing several of Tim’s images shot with the P45+ to demonstrate the true dynamic range of Phase One’s Digital Backs. We will also re-print the same images with the dynamic range of a 35 mm DSLR.
For more of Tim Wolcott’s work, visit: www.galleryoftheamericanlandscape.com
